Edward Luce: "Imagine that MacArthur Park scene around polling stations in November 2026. Imagine whatever pretext is used for [Trump Administration] to declare in a swing state or in a swing county that there are national security concerns... We're seeing dress rehearsals for that kind of thing."

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Very cool - @carlzimmer.com on a Nature paper, www.nature.com/articles/s41..., on pathogens from ancient Eurasian human remains. N =1313 people as far back as 37k ybp. Lots of interesting findings; more intriguing questions.

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Alpha Genome: deepmind.google/discover/blo... I just got asked whether I see dual use worries about it. My initial reaction was "it depends on just how good it is." And then, "hmm, for say, BioWar? Maybe, but not dramatically." It MIGHT be important for human enhancement, but I'm skeptical.

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Not at all stupid. 'You break it you own it'. Iran's a far larger and more populated country than Iraq with a massively armed internal security state. Letting it simply collapse would be impractical (anarchy & loose uranium) US would get sucked into an impossible occupation.

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"It's impossible to imagine Xi agreeing to sit down for one of Trump’s reality TV Oval Office specials. That crapshoot has done real harm to Zelenskyy and South Africa’s Ramaphosa. Xi will never agree to run that gauntlet." Me on why Trump could go any way on China. www.ft.com/content/d64c...

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